Ruminations

Ruminations is an essay by musician Marielle Allschwang written during the time of her involvement with the Death Blues Alverno Presents event and east coast tour. It reflects on how her past has created where she is in the present time.

An excerpt:

“Indeed, all my experiences with healing, meditation, classical music, and dance assert the breath as essential to the practice. Breath is given a specific pattern in relation to the activity or non- activity of the rest of the body. Breath is given form. And this form, when focused, can be transcendent.”

The moment when these ideas transcend music, words, images, etcetera and become something very personal and very real.

Whatever there is to complain about, or be saddened by, there is also an abundance of things to celebrate.